LONGVIEW, Wash. (AP) - Federal officials are considering a plan to spray vegetable oil on cormorant eggs in an effort to save Columbia River salmon. That would reduce the size of the black seabird colony on East Sand Island.
The Longview Daily News reports that the vegetable oil would prevent the cormorant eggs from hatching.
A federal study says the seabirds eat 11 million juvenile salmon and steelhead each year. The fish are protected under the Endangered Species Act.
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